Re: measuring noise levels - help needed

["Scott Fraser" scottbfraser]

There's this, which is probably about as accurate (or not) as whatever the city 
enforcers would use:
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=12680845
Don't know if Radio Shack has branches in Australia, but there must be an 
equivalent local consumer electronics hobbyist shop which would carry a similar 
device.
In the meantime, consider yourself slightly lucky, for it could be worse. I 
live in what was until a year ago, an extremely quiet suburb in the hills of 
Los Angeles. Until a rock band moved in directly across the street. They seemed 
to require being told that rehearsing in the garage at 2:00 in the morning was 
a not particularly courteous practice. Good luck.

Scott Fraser